Third Chord - God Plot: The Poisonous Python

[fair_trouble]

Who: Emery-Apollo, Tsuyukusa, Link, Kaitlyn, Natalia, a giant poisonous lizard, potentially some sailors.
What: Emery has hired some Corsairs to kill a monster that is poisoning the land in Hesaeth.
Where: Above an abandoned Hesaeth mine.
When: In between various missions to gather steel and powder.
OOC Info: Here.

As the Spring turns more solidly to Summer, Emery has been going about approaching various Corsairs with a job offer.

As a byproduct of ether experimentation, the Imperials have made a monster nicknamed “Python.” Python, Emery explained, is a large quadruped reptile which continually creates and secretes poison. Python not only poisons its prey, but it also contaminates water, soil, or any living thing it comes into contact with. What’s more, it’s an aggressive predator that continually seeks out food.

With their typical levels of responsibility, the Imperials decided to deal with it by dumping the monster onto Hesaeth. Python has found an abandoned mine to take shelter in, but regularly leaves to go hunting. It’s surviving on the small, hardy birds and mammals that make the desert its home, but it’s only a matter of time until it moves on. If it reaches a source of water, or any active mines, the situation could be disastrous.

Emery has magic that can purify the monster’s poison, but he’s not confident in his ability to take it out by himself. Thus he has gathered together a small assortment of skilled fighters under the promise of modest repayment.

To get to Python’s hideout requires an overnight trip by boat and then a hike of a few hours, and then it’s a battle against a wild enemy that cannot be touched with bare skin.

Comments

[fair_trouble]

"I'm fine," Emery says without looking up. "I burn this kind of thing up without even noticing."

The sun, which had been so low to the horizon when they first arrived, is now well up in the air. It shines on Emery, enhancing the glowing aura of holy ether that surrounds him. It flares up, licking across the ground and carcass like flames made of light.

Emery could swear he can see the poison that saturates the Python's body. It's like a thick, choking darkness that fills the veins and organs, but with Apollo's light he sees it vanishing wherever he concentrates his power. And it's just as astonishingly easy to banish the poisonous darkness as real darkness vanishes under the light of the sun. The only issue is...



"Uuughhh this is going to take forever."

...There is a lot of poison to clear. With a groan, Emery realizes he's also probably going to have to spend a lot of time in this area tracking down the places it's been so he can clean them up.

Which is a bit of a problem when there are people waiting on him. Emery glances at Link, then slaps both his hands onto the skull and focuses. An intense amount of light pours out of Emery and into the skull.

A moment later he lets go and gestures at Link.

"Uh, but the teeth should be okay to take now."

[theriflespiral]

Yep. It's reached the mopping up stage. In this case, literally.

"Anything I can help with? After a meal I should be able to start casting again."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link brightens - and then immediately moves in. He starts yanking on the teeth, digging the knife into the gums to help lever them out.

It's a process that might not be entirely pleasant for the squeamish to watch.

[heaven_rooted]

Tau hasn't said anything while Emery sets to work. He does stare at Link as once again the Hylian sets back to work in picking the carcass of parts. No, he does not understand this one's ways.

He watches, and while he can't see the poison he way that Emery does, he can smell the difference, and to some degree sense the thinning miasma that would have continued to seep into the environment around the creature's body.

"What more do we have to do around here?" He doesn't mind how long it takes because he knows it's important to deal with things thoroughly.

[fair_trouble]

Emery turns towards the others, carefully not watching Link's enthusiastic display of amateur dentistry. (The glimpse he did get was almost grodier than watching the Python get beheaded was.)

"Once everything's detoxed, it should be safe for the body to remain here," Emery says. "Honestly, you can all just head back whenever you want. I can catch up with you later."

Even if they sail off without him, his throne room gives him an easy way to travel around.

[frost_and_shinies]

"... Nice to know we succeeded," Kaitlyn responds. Even as she is... Glancing at Link's work.

"There's more to do for sure, though, huh? Can I be of much help?"

[heaven_rooted]

"I'll have a look around to make sure this thing hasn't left any other messes in the area," Tau says. It'd give him a chance to check out what's left of the plantlife around here as well. They seem like they could use a bit of bolstering.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link gives Kaitlyn a curious look - maybe she wants teeth too? Or perhaps she'd like some scales. He can understand that; he'd also been eying those.

So he nods, and gives her a knife before pulling out another one from the bottomless pit that was his Korok-enchanted pack. She can have at it, if she likes.